| About this Abstract |
| Meeting |
2021 TMS Annual Meeting & Exhibition
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| Symposium
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Practical Tools for Integration and Analysis in Materials Engineering
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| Presentation Title |
Application of Prolate Spheroid Stereology to Microtexture Regions in Ti-6Al-4V |
| Author(s) |
Jaylen James, Adam Pilchak, Sushant Jha, Raymundo Arroyave, Eric Payton |
| On-Site Speaker (Planned) |
Jaylen James |
| Abstract Scope |
The fatigue life of near-alpha titanium alloys in service is a function of dwell time and microstructure. Clusters of alpha phase with similar c-axis orientations, known as micro-textured regions (MTRs), provide a local environment which facilitates initiation and growth of sub-surface cracks. Models exist for prediction of fatigue crack growth rate taking into account both dwell time and microtextured region parameters such as size; however, to date only 2-dimensional measurements have been used as inputs to this inherently 3-dimensional problem. In the present work, the MTR regions are assumed to be in the shape of prolate spheroids and the major and minor axis lengths are measured in cross-section. Then, the 3D size and shape distributions are estimated using the expectation-maximization and the Cruz-Orive spheroid unfolding algorithm. The magnitude of uncertainty in the unfolding results and implications for 2D fatigue life models for Ti-6Al-4V will be discussed. |
| Proceedings Inclusion? |
Planned: |
| Keywords |
Modeling and Simulation, Mechanical Properties, Computational Materials Science & Engineering |